Age Making -Night- Standard

I was re-reading MYST: The Book of Ti'ana last night, and came upon one of my favorite parts. The part where Aitrus explains to her how Ages are created/linked. So, I made this. The girl is supposed to be Ti'ana. She's not really reading anything, just contemplating.

This version is 1024x768. Here is the companion 1680x1050 piece [link]

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This world is the Age that is described in the book back in the room in D'ni. It conforms precisely to the details in that book. In an infinite universe, all things are possible - within physical limits, that is - and any book that can be written does physically exist. Somewhere. The book is the bridge between the words and the physical actuality. Word and world are linked by the special properties of the book.

The Ages to which they linked were not made by them, they already existed, for the making of worlds was a process that took not months but long millennia.

"These Ages are worlds that do exist, or have existed, or shall. Providing the description fits, there is no limitation of time or space. The link is made regardless."

And so too, this world of theirs, their Age. It too existed, or had existed, or would. But where it was or when they did not know. Not that it mattered most of the time, but on occasion she did wonder just where they were in the night sky, and when - whether at the beginning of the universe or somewhere near the end of that vast process.

The very thought of it humbled her, made her understand why her father had believed in a Maker who had fashioned it all. Having "written," having seen the great skill and subtlety involved in merely creating a link to these worlds, she now found herself in awe of the infinite care that had gone into the making of the originals to which their templates linked.

Personally, she could not believe that blind process had made it all. It was, for her, quite inconceivable, bearing in mind the complexity and variety of life. Yet in this, if nothing else, Aitrus differed from her. His was, or so he claimed, a more rational approach, more scientific - as if understanding the product of such processes were the key to understanding the why of them existing in the first place.

~ MYST: The Book of Ti'ana

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Credit:
window -> [link]
girl -> (I don't know, somebody help?)
Todelmer + Myst book -> Cyan Worlds